GMLOKS’ girls won the Sub-2 meet. Chantle Reiland won four events (100, 200, Long Jump, 4x200) including resetting her own program record in the Long Jump (17’8”). Breeley Galle (Triple Jump, 300-hurdles, 100-hurdles, 4x200) and Gracie Foster (100-H, 300-H, T-Jump, 4x100) each also qualified for sections four times. Chatfield’s Charlotte Oeltjen won the 3,200-meters, … [Read more...]
Post-Season Track and Field
Sub-Section 1 Meet (Cotter/Hope Lutheran’s girls (167) topped RPH (101) with LFCMC (80.5) taking fifth and Caledonia/SG (32) eighth (of nine). St. Charles’ boys (193.5) topped Cotter/HL (162) followed by RPH (104), LFCMC (58.5), and C/SG (51). Dover-Eyota, Lewiston-Altura, and La Crescent/Hokah also competed. RPH 1A Meet girls qualifiers: Aubry Boldt (1st 100-hurdes > … [Read more...]
Baseball (6/2)
Warriors Post Shutouts in Posting Playoff Wins Pitching wins games. Caledonia baseball turned to its two 6’6” senior throwers in opening round playoff contests. Combined with some errorless defense, each produced shut-out wins, moving the Warriors in the 1AA third round. Versus Lake City (13-seed, 5-14) in the 1AA Round of 16, Caledonia (4-seed, 14-6) got a 15-strikeout … [Read more...]
Softball (6/2)
#10 Gophers Post Back-to-Back Rallies, Head to Austin Unblemished It is probably not advisable to start a second-round section game down 3-0, and then a third-round contest down 4-0. That is what the #10 in AA Chatfield softball did, and yet they are still off to Austin without a loss for a battle with the #1-ranked team in state. Brent Berge’s Gophers (2-seed, 16-4) first … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Lanesboro’s Jack Brogle shot the two lowest rounds of the year for any Journal-covered golfer (back-to-back two-under-par 33s) in wins over Kingsland and Houston. Hurricane Logan Olson shot a 38 in defeat. Both Burros teams (10-0) are SEC champions. Tenth-ranked Chatfield softball fell to St. Charles 7-1 in a key TRC-West contest. The Gophers (10-4, 16-4) take second behind … [Read more...]
Baseball (5/26)
Warriors Post Second Straight 4-1 Week For a second straight week, Caledonia baseball won four of five games. Their 12-3 record over the final 15 games has them a top four post-season seed. Shawn Bauer’s group first avenged a loss to Lewiston-Altura. The Warriors scored four in the bottom of the first and then never looked back in a 9-1 win. Reid Klug gave up just one … [Read more...]
Track and Field (5/26)
GMLOKS is State True Team Runner-Up, LFCMC Takes 8th For a third straight year, GMLOKS girls track and field is the state True Team runner-up. For the second straight year, they do so by a very narrow margin, and this year against the team they topped at sections. Aaron Thauwald’s group (538) took second to 1A rival Cotter/Hope Lutheran (543.5) with Luverne (485.5) taking … [Read more...]
Softball (5/26)
Hurricanes Ascend to Shared SEC Title Playing games of descending toughness, Houston softball posted a 3-0 week with two big victories. They ascended to a share of the SEC title. The biggest win was a Tuesday showdown with league leader Southland. Houston took advantage of 12 walks and they hammered out 10 hits. Josh Swenson’s ‘Canes built a 10-1 lead midway through the … [Read more...]
Mabel-Canton School Board Approves Sale of Bonds
The Mabel-Canton School Board held its regular meeting on May 20 at 6:00 p.m. in Room 50, Mrs. Peter’s science classroom. Board Chair Chris Miller opened the meeting and led attendees in the Pledge of Allegiance. Senior Municipal Advisor Jodie Zesbaugh with Ehlers & Associates presented a presale report for the voter approved school building bonds. The board unanimously … [Read more...]
Hot Shots (5/19)
R-P boys golf handed La Crescent/Hokah its first loss of the season, 165 to 167. Trojan Jaxson Meldahl then shot a 39 to medal in a win over W-K. Brody Srsen and Brock Sikkink each had 39s as FC beat Crestwood. Aiden Arnold shot a one-under 35 and Srsen a 37, as the Falcons topped Cotter with a season-low 156. LC/H (7-1, 7-1) leads the TRC-East over R-P (7-2-1, 7-2-1) and FC … [Read more...]